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Episode Date: August 11, 2025

Much to discuss with Dr. Powers on where Past Meets Present, profile of Omars restaruarant history, the Trump takeover of DC and much more news.

The Bill Myers Show podcast is sponsored by Klausur drilling. They've been leading the way in southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausordrilling.com. Dr. Dennis Powers returns. He's retired professor of business law, and you can find out more about everything he's done. Dennis Powers Books.com. Of course, he's also the author of Where Pass Meets Present, which is what we call this segment. Doctor, good hearing from you. How you been?

Always my pleasure, especially in terms of And it's summertime. We can also see, my friend, that we're starting to head into the fall. But lots of things going on, and we're here at your pleasure. Yeah, we haven't quite hit that poignant feel in the air yet. When you can almost feel that sharpness of going into fall, you know that feel, especially at nighttime. Oh, absolutely. And, of course, you have heat waves.

But again, we have to thank President Trump for giving us. us so much to think about, especially with where Oregon fits in, if it does, to some semblance of rationality. By chance, did you end up going to that SOU deal with Thursday? They had Dan Rayfield, the Attorney General of the State of Oregon there. Did you go to that by chance? Just curious. No, I was not going to go there because I knew exactly ahead of time what's going to go ahead.

It's going to be going ahead where the Oregon State tells what its position is on a number of things, including men and women's sports and all the things that make Oregon right now, especially given our local representatives who are very quiet and not representing the people. Yeah, it does seem that way. I know that they were, I should say he, the AG, was getting a lot of incoming from the reports that I was seeing that, no, why aren't you doing more and yet about every other day? day or so, Dan Rayfield seems to be filing a lawsuit, but it almost is like looking for more actionable intelligence, I guess, in the ways to stop ICE from rounding up people who are here illegally, that kind of thing. But there are a lot of things that the AG can do on the ground, is there? I mean, I suppose you could file lawsuits until the cows come home and then maybe blocks them. See, on that specific issue of Oregon's AG, who is liberal,

you have to go ahead and keep up with different other news organizations, never AP, which is totally biased, to find out the number of places where Oregon has just shunted after California in all the things that Gavin Newson is doing in terms of the major issues that are 90-10. And it just, like it calls from friends of mine, stay in touch with, we play bridge, we've been close friends, and some of them have never voted for a Republican in their life, and they just say, it's a shame is what's happened in Oregon. Well, they say it's a shame what happened in Oregon, but yet failing to connect it to a liberal ideology?

Is that really what we're looking at here, or the actual policies on the ground? Well, where can you go, my friend, to get this news? You have to read between the lines. I go ahead, and I will glance at the New York Times, I will go ahead at a lot of different places in Fox News. You can forget about the lead if it's AP, but you can go in and just find one little word like lawsuit by Oregon has to do with illegal immigrants. What we're having is we do not have a transparent state government. we do not have transparent local representatives, and Oregon is one to where, when you go ahead

and find out what's going on, what I hope, Bill, in terms of myself, is that I won't have all the knowledge that I have to keep up with, which I have to thank the show for, so that I can go ahead and see how far gone. Oregon has gone in three decades. Yeah, it's definitely been a challenge here for sure. I know that one of the big stories over the weekend was that ICE arrested Guatemalan workers heading to harvest berries in Oregon. This according to an advocacy group. This was in the Oregonian. And ICE ended up arresting farm workers near Woodburn as they headed to harvest blueberries.

This according to Oregon for all an immigration rights advocacy group, which means actually Oregon for everybody in the entire world to come to. Yeah, it's the same nonprofit game. whereas the recycling of money underneath the Democratic with a K-party underneath Biden put monies in to these nonprofits like the ones you've just mentioned. I couldn't help it wonder, though, if maybe where the United States in general went wrong was with the creation of the nonprofit organization and the nonprofit foundation. Any thoughts on that? I've often thought that we have so much undue influence that has been formed through those.

That's kind of a point of law. I don't know if that's something you're willing to comment on or not. Well, yeah, I am, because what it is is that I've been able to see it, my friend. And the key thing is the fact that the concept of power corrupts absolutely. And so what happens is with nonprofits like EARP, remember how they went ahead and fought for Obamacare. And now they're going ahead and they're doing all these ads on TV. on, there's, their cost is $15 a month now, where before it was kind of like two bucks, you know, for three years. The corruption of the non-profits. Now, that's why Alliance defending freedom is what listeners should check in and put their monies to,

because that's the ASTU alternative. With all the things that the Democratic Party is doing, it has made most Oregonians a shame. and we are showing a net loss every year. Yeah, people are walking. Yeah, they're walking with your... They're already doing it, and there's nothing worse than words, where words are changing a damn thing in this state, and the Republican Party makes mistakes. Like when they went ahead and put all the money in to recall Gavin Newson,

what an incredible stupid decision, because they should have kept the money and went into redistricting. Fair enough. All right. I'll talk about that a little bit, later with you if you don't mind. I'm going to, we're going to cleanse the Pallet here for a moment and do the history deal, okay, because I think it's a lot of fun.

This is a great fun, fun one, the story of Omar's in Ashland, and I haven't been there for quite some time. I don't go out to eat as much as I used to in general, but I remember an experience it was really something in Omar's a number of years ago, but there's a lot of history behind this group, isn't there? Yes, there is an awful lot. And when we pick a restaurant, it's because there is some real historical significance to it. In this particular case, Omar and Hazel Hill, and that's spelled with an E, had run Hills Cafe at Klamath Junction.

Now, this is now underwater when they doubled the size of Emig Lake, you know, for TiG water. So that's originally where their first restaurant was then? Yes. Underneath the lake. Okay, got it. Okay. But when you look at Bill where Omer had gotten his experience, the Brown Derby. This was an hotel in Hollywood.

Yeah, that was a big deal back in its day, wasn't it? He was top caliber, but he wanted to be on his own, which is very difficult to do these days in Oregon, especially if it's a restaurant. But in 1945, they moved to Ashland because of the fact that, The warning was already out as to what would happen at an immigrant lake, and they built Omar's with an A on the Berkeley hot spring site where they found Macedon bones, and there is a lot of things there. But when they opened up Omar's, the sign company incorrectly spelled O-M-A-R. Oh, so they just kept it, huh?

Is that what they did? They kept it, and it should have been O-M-E-R. Oh, that's funny. Which is his name. Oh, that's funny. But they kept it. But there's another thing that folks should know that I found out by going to SOU and teaching for all those years is the fact that what you had was the only restaurant on college-owned land that served liquor.

And the reason for it was Elmo Stevenson, who was, the savior of now SOU until Salem got into the act. Yeah, and that was Stevenson Union named after him, right? Exactly. And what he did is he didn't want students, which they were doing then, driving to Hornbrook in the mountains, to imbibe. He just felt it's too dangerous to drive, which it was. All right.

So having Omar's then serving booze to the college kids, that was looked at as a safety deal then? That's pretty cool. Well, you see, what's so funny about it is, I was talking just the other day with a long-time neighbor who remembers the way it was when Omar's was first set up, and he was telling me stories, and one of them that I was able to really go into, Bill, and you're going to love this one. It was one to where there was a time when the college students would first go there, but then they would try to do it

before the loggers came in, because we had a lot of sawmills here. We had a lot of logging camps around this area. Very different town in those days, no doubt. And this one imbibing sawmen went ahead, and he wanted to order around, and the bartender said, gee, what do you got? And he said, I don't have a check, so he takes off his sweaty t-shirt and writes all the information down, hands it to the bartender, the drinks go out, that Monday she goes into the bank and deposits one t-shirt that has the writing written on it

that certainly had lasted in some fashion for three days. Oh, you've got to love that. Hey, want to ask you, who owns it now, and is there anything new going on with it? Any talk on that? Yeah, and I've talked with her, and I've, and Jennifer Sink is now the sole owner. She bought into the partnership some years ago, but what was interesting, a part there, and Jennifer is still running it, and she is a delightful person, is that when we go back all the way to about 24 years ago, you had the chief, chef who then with Brian Porter and Tim Tolman, who partnered up to run Omar's, but then they left to set up Porter's.

Now, Porter's was a fine place that we've reported on before. And no longer in existence now. It ended up closing, unfortunately. And it not only closed, which is interesting. And Judy and I might, on our next trip into Medford, that the grand opening, was really April 28th of this year of the old spaghetti factory in the same facilities. So in terms of numbers of places, and of course anyone who is going out, and it certainly is more expensive now than it was, let's say, pre-Biden,

what we have is a number of good restaurants, and we can go where we want. But the problem with restaurants very quickly is, that you really have to be careful and able to run it because people always seem to want to own a restaurant. And when I was in private practice, even when I was teaching at SOU and I would ask to consult on a restaurant in Jackson County, it changes so rapidly that just the fact that you have someone like Omar's with Jennifer Sink is really a standoff. Oh, and I forgot to mention, thanks for letting me continue on, Bill. It's the longest continuous operating restaurant from Portland to Redding

because it goes back to 1946. All right, very good. Great story. And Omar's, of course, which I guess should have been Omer, Omer, or Omer, but that's a great story. Okay, we're just going to stick with it. And then future owners of the restaurant ended up putting a camel on the, the sign, you know, doing all those kind of things, right, to kind of play off that. That's an exon issue because they were doing it because with the sign the way it was,

being with an A, they wanted to bring in more of a look that would bring people in, and it seemed to go with their motif. Yeah, it's kind of, well, it's the making it a little more exotic sounding, right? That kind of kind of thing. All right. Love it. At some point. All right.

Thank you very much, Doc. Okay, we're past meets present for Omer's, or Omer's rather, Omer. Okay, I'll get it. Now you've got to be all confused of this one, but it's a lot of fun, okay? I'll put that up. It is a lot of fun, and thanks for giving us the opportunity going into that. All right, where past meets present, the present is returned to in just a moment after the pallet cleansing and news on the Bill Meyers show.

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he does have the authority to do so. What is the actual design of Washington, D.C., or mean, you know, what is its actual legal? It's not a traditional city, right? Kind of like a territory of sorts, right? No, because the founding fathers wanted Washington, D.C. to be a neutral zone, if you will, as distinct from New York City, which is totally far left. But what happens is that Trump was invoking what's called the Home Rule Act, and again, we're back into the Democratic with the K-party, the communists, because. I can imagine they're not going to be real happy about this going on, right? Well, they don't care about this country. The concept of power corrupts absolutely. We see it in our local representatives.

The point is, is the fact that in this, in conditions of an emergency nature, that the D.C. police department is the ability and the authority to commandeer that police department. It is given to the President of the United States. So the important thing is, again, conditions of an emergency nature, and Pam Bondi is now in charge of the Metropolitan Police Department. This is going to be, again, where we're going to have the Democrats, even though it's how to lie with numbers. And as you spound in the Bureau of Labor standards, the Democrats know very well how to lie with numbers. Yeah, yeah, we'll get back in.

I just wanted to touch in this, though. Is there a definition of the emergency? I have a feeling this is where the legal challenges will be. I know there was the Doge guy that ended up being beat senseless there on the street, and that's where it seemed to kind of spiral out of control into this. Not I'm saying that we're out of control, but I'm just saying it led to this, I think. there has to be, I don't think there's any way of not connecting the two news stories, wouldn't you? And see, typically in legislation, you're not, you can't define what an emergency is.

So it's a factual conclusion. And my friend, the reason why it's a factual conclusion is emergency could be a fire, like when the British or an armed insurrection went ahead and burnt the capital down. or it could be, you know, the fact that you have a hurricane, or you have the Potomac, or you have an earthquake, or if you have right now the fact that it's lawless with no bail. And then the lying with numbers comes out because the fact that they're now, which is a PR bit, and the New York Times, of course, is going to run things that a bad crime is down, but then the question is where the numbers come from, the D.C. Police Department. and we're back to the same old thing.

You know, Bill, I have to say that I can't imagine where this country would be had the Biden-Harris-abomasorce coalition actually won and defeated Trump. I would agree with you on that. I'm looking at what's going on now, though. With this is this Home Rule Act, and you're right, that's exactly what he used to enact here. does the Home Rule Act have like a time limit where you know you run it for 30 days or until the emergency is over how does that work legally I don't know you know I guess this just happened so may take a little bit of uh of research well that's that's an excellent question uh because again

what happens uh is is that in terms of the length of the emergency uh let's take uh the way uh uh you know, Bass and Newsom have totally forgotten about the people of California in the fires in Pacific Palisades. And let's just say that you had a fire like that in Washington, D.C. Who knows? Okay, so the emergency is until the emergency is considered over. Okay. The one thing I think for sure.

That is that this is just from my experience from having gone a few times and stayed for, I want to say four or five times that I had been to the nation's capital. And most of the time it was with the Federation for American Immigration Reform. They would do there. So I'd stay there two, three nights. And my experience was that everybody knew that you didn't dare step out on the streets at night. Just no way. Because essentially it was filled with street thuggery.

And in Washington, D.C., it was pretty well known. Well, you could just hear it from your hotel room. I mean, downtown right by the Capitol here, and you would just hear the police sirens and all the, it would just go incessantly all night, doc. And it just astounded me how much in the tourist capital of the area, how much street crime was going on there and how everybody knew, no, you didn't go out after about 8 o'clock at night for the most part, unless, you know, you really knew what you were doing. Everybody knew it. Everybody talked about it. And so it's been pretty well known for a long time that street thuggery was able to run over Washington, D.C. So I guess maybe the real question is I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner.

Well, you know, in terms of the way and are discussing it, Bill, is that Washington, D.C. is no different than Los Angeles. No different than New York City. But, see, President Trump doesn't control those. technically he can, though, control D.C. as the territory, right? Well, that's because of the fact that it is a home rule, which means that, quote, unquote, the citizens are the ones. But you see, in this case, it's much different than the political makeup where you have the Kathy Holtrell, who's running New York and trying to run for president. So you have these differences. But the problem is that our major cities, my friend,

have come to exactly where it is overseas. And it has to do with not prosecuting crime, and I think there's a lot of ideology which is involved in that, doctor. And no bail. I mean, so these people, like the ones in Cincinnati, this is a major problem where the Democratic Party needs to be put out of business because they have gone for no bail. And so it's happening is that the people,

people, these thugs are being released throughout the day. You know, I'm going to touch the third rail a little bit here, Doc. Okay. Isn't it the real issue here that Democratic Party, in my opinion, I'm just looking at an observation, has more or less conditioned black Americans to be somewhat entitled to their, you know, to be able to behave as they wish in some American inner cities? You can't, I don't know if you can completely separate race from a race. what's been going on in Cincinnati and other places, because as far as I was concerned,

that was an attack based on race because of a couple of white people involved in that. And the thing is, is that's an excellent point, because when we go to that third rail, the mistake made by the Democratic with a K Communist Party is that with no bail, the great amount of African Americans are law-abiding. but as a voting group and as statistics though go that same group you talk to Dr. John Lott would say punches above its weight

in crime especially in inner cities and the reason is first of all the way the crime statistics are skewed is the fact that in the inner cities and I remember on some book tours of coming into Detroit at one o'clock in the morning. And I'll tell you, you do not want to go even in a taxi through Detroit at

1 o'clock in the morning. But the problem is, is that with the drug situation and dealing in drugs and the fact of having a lot of things going on that are unfortunate where there's not a male father in the group, and there's all these statistics, and where the Democratic Party, and I'm seeing them doing the same thing here in Oregon made a horrible mistake is that black Americans only represent 11% of the entire population. And that's the voting population. But the equality is here. The equality is here. But what's happened, although the Democratic with a K party is going ahead and bringing out the mantra of discrimination. Well, any

time, if you're arrested and put away, it's because you're of being black, rather than because of what may have been done. And yeah, exactly. I don't know. Are we just now at the point where that's over, that that's going to be over as a cultural tone here or

a pome or a bromide or whatever it is that you were arrested just because of your race and it's going to be, hey, if you did it, you're going to be arrested one way or the other. Is that something that the president ends up bringing to this? No, unfortunately, and the reason is, Bill, is that the mantra of this party is one to where they would rather have civil disobedience and riots. Why? They want federal police. Why? The one thing I learned a long time ago, and it was in law school, was that if we wanted

to see why someone is advancing something, see what is in their best interest. Actually, I learned that from Judy, because I would just take it at face value. And then I found out it depends on where that person is coming from. The Democratic Party is totally corrupt. It is corrupt. So, okay, now I want to jump down your rabbit hole there. You're saying that ultimately, that ultimately the Democratic Party you think would like to have federalizing of all police, all right? Oh, absolutely.

In other words, what they want? Every, all the police departments to be like a metropolitan D.C., in which we don't enforce the law if the race is the wrong person to arrest? I mean, what? What does that mean? Good discussion, Bill, because when we go to Mambani, who is a communist, who is a, he believes in taking over the means of production. He wants to defund the police to go ahead and put in social workers. Why? Because he wants to grow government and tax the people which would include you and would include me and they use the mantra of we're going to take we're going to tax billionaires BS all right I appreciate the take on that doc

we'll shift this away so needless to say this is going to be an interesting new wrinkle with the takeover of Washington DC I completely understand part of me would say I wonder why it hasn't been done before you know at this point because it's not exactly like DC was was unknown to be a poohol, so to speak, you know, just kind of leave it at that, okay? Well, you know, I might make a very quick, you know, assumption that's being made. There are very good African-American officers, whether they are attorney generals or governors. And the problem is that the sources of the world say, you know, I got a million dollars for, you. Why don't you just go ahead and really, you know, get your base. Talk about no bail.

But you see, criminals don't vote. And that's the reason why Trump was such a big winner on major fronts. But I'm with you. I'd rather have palate cleansers, and I really love Omar's. And part of that also is if you ever have the chance, I love to go into Trump's best lines. and I'll give you a very quick one. One of his funniest ones for Trump is, no one loves me like I love me, and no one does it better. I'll agree with you there.

Okay. Hey, Doc, I always appreciate this one. Well, we're into a new era here with a takeover of D.C. And my question for you, the final question here, as we go back to the non-palill cleanser, is do you expect legal challenges to fly like has happened with every other order that has happened with President Trump, or is it because he has pure statutory authority to do this, that the courts will be largely silent? What do you think, then, as a piece of law or a point of law? Absolutely, my friend, there will be lawsuits that come

in, and, you know, the Democratic Party does not pay attention to the law, as we found out with the Second Amendment in New York. And the second thing also is that one of the things that really struck me is the Biden appointee judge who paused the new construction at Alligator Alcatraz on environmental concerns. That particular judge put in a TRO, temporary restraining order, which the Supreme Court has said we don't like. They did it in environment, which already we have, you know, the environmental laws being brought back to assess. a series of reasonableness. So lawfare, as we saw against Trump, is what the communists are going to do. Okay.

Now, final, final question, and then we're going to go to the Diner-62 Real American Quiz. And that's going to be another pallet cleanser, okay? Oh, I'd love to get into that one. But you would like this one, though. Now, it wasn't just a few days ago at the end of the special session, that regular session, pardon me, Oregon Shakespeare Festival got two and a half million dollars from the Christmas tree bill, you know, the House Bill 5,06, right? So they got two and a half million dollars for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

to take care of lights in this and that the other. Meanwhile, we have the city of Gold Hill going down the tubes, no pun intended, because of the sewage treatment costs. They're going to be paying like $153 a month just for the sewer treatment and the pipe to take it over there. It's very, very high. And I guess we're told that Oregon Shakespeare Festival is more of a friend of Jeff and Pam. Is it all that simple?

Is that the calculation that comes from something like this, that kind of deal? Yes. And the reason is, as we see it with SOU, I am, and many of us are really concerned about our local representatives because SOU, which had to declare financial emergency, because Salem has switched the amount of money, and it was even stated by SOU, that the state has really cut down on the monies that they have given for education, and it used to be two-thirds was given by the state. Now it's less than a third. If you do, depending on the number, it's 20%.

And our representatives are silent. And so what has happened is that because in Salem, the big money is in Washington, D.C., they are following, like chipmunks, California, because they want, and they're hoping that in 28 or 26 that these people can get to where the real money and power is, and they are not showing they care about this state one bit. And it's really a shame because even Democrats are leaving California in Oregon. I know. Well, I'm also reading that the police chief in Ashland in your town is going to be asking the city council for more authority to kick the dirtbags out of the downtown area. I think you'll get it. I think it's going to be a wink-wink. Because I've already seen locally through friends of mine who are very close to the city council here, they wink-wink. and when you can take a look at the disastrous decisions made by the city council, like pouring in the millions to a homeless place, that they didn't have the right to operate as a homeless place, and you go into all the different things, people, for example, look at Lithia Park. It is no longer in the upper trails, the clean park it used to be, because once the city council got into Lithia Park, they have been using it to bring money out to their other homeless. and other types. Yeah, the homeless industrial complex.

Got it. All right. Hey, Doc, I appreciate it as always, so you're just saying that they'll say, all right, you can be tougher, but not tougher, really, even though he's asking for it. It's going to be wink-wing. I mean, take a look at all the way through the way of taking over different things.

And the way that we're not getting the truth to the voters on everything, we've already had different increases in terms of on the real properties tax. and it's just going to continue because Ashland is out of control the way Salomon is. Okay. Well, I think that Gold Hill can get things paid for. All it has to do is just bring the satellite OSF to it, and then they'll get $2.5 million from the state legislature, too. All right.

Appreciate a call there, Doc. We'll see you next Monday, okay? Thanks again. Be well and take care. All right. 770-633-77-0-K-M-E-D. We're going to have fun. Diner 62 Real.

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I don't know, some take on a Denver. I don't know what the name is, but I love it. Just ask it for whatever they sent to Bill. You'll enjoy that. Okay. But Diner 62 has Clam Chowder Friday, too, and fresh avocado available on everything. Half ham special still on 1115 Monday through Friday during the morning show.

Okay. All right. Let me head to what we got here. We got Carol Ann. Hello, Carol Ann. How you doing? Oh, good morning. I so wanted.

I called when the doctor was on with you to make a comment, just one word, which was required reading, 1984. Okay, got it. It was required in high school, and it should be again. Now, do you want to be first, or are you good? Yeah, okay. Okay. All right, here we go. Now, this was from last week, Carol Ann.

It was August 8, 1988. Chicago Cubs host the first night game in the history of Wrigley Field. First ever night games took place, actually 60 years earlier, May 2nd, when a Des Moines, Iowa team hosted Wichita for a Western League game. The matchup drew 12,000 people. Now, as minor league ball clubs were routinely folding in the middle of the Great Depression, owners found that, well, one way to innovate was to have night games. The major leagues, though, took five years to catch up to their small-town counterparts

and started having night games in 1935. Now, the question for the win this morning, Carol Ann, is how long was Wrigley Field the only major league ballpark to not host night games? How long were they the only one? Was it A, 10 years, B, 20 years, C, 30 years, D, 40 years, years or e 50 years it was at least 10 years but what do you think go ahead wow it's hard enough for me to track you through the whole question yeah i know okay well so i'm sorry about that so the lights go on at rigley august 8th of 1988 how long did they not have lights when everybody else did

was it uh 10 20 30 40 or 50 years okay i'll say 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 or 30 30 30 or right in the middle. I'm sorry. It's either less or more, but we're trying. Let me go to Vicki. Hey, Vicki, take it away. Morning. Good morning. I'm going to say 10. You're going to say 10. You're going to say 10 years? No. It's more than 10. All right. So I now go to Gary. Hello, Gary. What's going on? Hi, Bill. I'm going to go with 40. You're going to go with 40. That's D. 40 years. Survey says, you're a way. Yeah. First big league night game took place in Cincinnati, May 24th, 1935, drew 25,000. But yeah, it took a lot longer before the Chicago Cubs had that. And for 74 seasons, the Cubs played only day games at home. Finally, it was August 8th, 1988. They played the Phillies in the park's very first night game. So congratulations, Gary. You're going to Diner's 62, and we'll have another one of these on Wednesday this week.

Stephen Westfall Roofing is growing. Now proudly serving Brooklyn. I'm on 106.7, KMED. I never get tired of Ray Charles with a bumper. I need to have more. Anyway, I wanted to give a shout out to Wild Sam and Steve. He wrote me about Omar's. We were talking about that earlier.

He says, hey, Bill, back in the 1960s, they served a drink called Skip and Go Naked. This drink had multiple shots of liquor, wine, and beer. I saw a kid drink one one time. or they were trying to, and then they were on the floor before it was finished, not naked, but with a major hangover the next day. Great story. Wild Sam and Steve.

We appreciate that. By the way, my email at Bill at Billmyershow.com. We'll catch you on Tuesday for Pebble in Your Shoe Tuesday. Is your water well not producing like it used to, or perhaps it never produced? Do you and your family find yourself rationing or hauling water because there's just not enough? Clouse are drilling.